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Another departure from the past has to do with the stocks of small companies. They typically do not pay a dividend--the payoff is in price appreciation. That makes them more desirable when the cap-gains rate falls because dividends get taxed as ordinary income--a higher rate for most investors. Yet big stocks have been rising fastest all year, and that could persist. Why? Big stocks, as defined by the S&P 500, now have a measly 1.6% dividend yield, vs. 6% in the early '80s. In short, they're also being managed for growth instead of income...
Meanwhile, the IRS already figures it takes an average taxpayer 11 hours to fill out a standard Form 1040--and six hours more if he or she must also complete Schedule A (itemized deductions) and Schedule B (interest and dividend income). Whatever the final form of a tax bill, it's safe to predict that taxpayers will have to set aside a good deal more time than that before next April...
...heard such naysaying before. This mighty bull market long ago trampled traditional value measures such as stock prices relative to corporate assets and dividends. Investors--correctly, it turns out--laughed off the notion that the market must weaken just because dividend yields (annual dividend divided by stock price) sank to below 2% when they've rarely been below 3% any time this century. They also laughed off gobs of anecdotal evidence that prices were precariously high: cab drivers offering mutual-fund tips, barbershops tuned to CNBC, record prices for seats on the New York Stock Exchange, exploding margin debt...
...full five years to get through college. Most of the country's parents look at this as a sort of slacker ritual--the obligatory year of mosh pitting, coffee drinking and Kerouac reading before graduation. But there's another way to regard that extra year: as a peace dividend. A generation ago, in the midst of the Vietnam War, the idea of a year off from college was dangerously ridiculous. Leaving school meant a one-way ticket to Saigon. Two generations ago it was Korea. Three generations ago, war-torn Europe or the inferno of the Pacific. My generation...
...brutally congruent demands for sacrifice and faith. And because we haven't had to fight, we've been free from the conformist pressures of a nation at war. We've found our own, unique identity as a generation that thinks and does as it pleases. The peace dividend has allowed us to live abroad more often and for longer than any other generation. Technoliths like Microsoft and Nike are earning their spectacular growth on the backs of twentysomething executives who work overseas and are fighting not only for the cause of their chosen company but also to propagate a belief...